Our WW2 Walking the Ground Normandy series includes this "lost episode" that features James Holland and Al Murray in Sherwood Rangers territory, just after D-Day. They are on the front line of the Allied advance, around Audrieu, Hill 102, and Tilly-sur-Seulles.

It starts at Audrieu, close to where the 12th SS Recce Battalion cold-bloodedly murdered 24 Canadian and 2 British POWs in the grounds of the Château d'Audrieu, as it retraces the first couple of lookouts along the actual path taken by the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry, part of the 8th Armoured Brigade, during the fierce inland fighting that followed the D-Day beach landings on June 6, 1944.

At the film's core is Captain Keith Douglas, a tank commander in the Sherwood Rangers, a poet, and one of the war's most brilliant literary voices (whose work we can enjoy today because he was killed in this fighting on 9 June 1944). James and Al trace his final moments using battlefield sketches made shortly after the events they depict by Padre Leslie Skinner, chaplain to the Sherwood Rangers. Skinner's sketches record the landscape where Douglas died — marking tank wrecks, terrain features, and makeshift graves (to ensure bodies could later be recovered and properly reburied in official war cemeteries), but most importantly, ensuring that we have a record of what happened to Keith Douglas.

Douglas's close friend, Capt. John Bethel Fox, was killed five days after him. James and Al end the journey at Tilly-sur-Seulles War Cemetery, paying their respects to both men and reflecting on the countless young lives lost in one of the most important and hardest-fought campaigns of the Second World War.